 | William Mathews - 1878 - 464 pàgines
...morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth 'daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." As nothing is more effective in oratory than imagery, so nothing is more dangerous when uncontrolled... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - 312 pàgines
...whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." On going out of the Senate, one of the members complimented Mr. Webster upon this, saying that he was... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 pàgines
...possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the t t t 4 Perhaps a mere rhetorician might consider superfluous the word " whole," as applied to " globe," and... | |
 | George Shea - 1880 - 516 pàgines
...possessions and military posts ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."2 We are thinking, of course, of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the founders of the British... | |
 | John Adam Cramb - 1914 - 184 pàgines
...and military v 509907 posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England," Germany has remained cooped up within her narrow boundaries, with inadequate access to the sea, and... | |
 | Adam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty - 1914 - 406 pàgines
...empire-builders. That the British ' morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ' is largely due to the explorations of James Cook on his three remarkable voyages. The Admiralty equipped... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 326 pàgines
...possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. The necessity of holding strictly to the principles upon which free governments are constructed, and... | |
 | Steadman Vincent Sanford, Peter Franklin Brown - 1914 - 362 pàgines
...military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun in his course, and keeping pace with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. — WEBSTER. PART II— THE USE OF THE MATERIAL OF SPEECH CHAPTER XII THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: COMPLETE... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pàgines
...possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martinl airs of England. — DANIEL WEBSTER : Speech, May 7, 1834. Why should the brave Spanish soldier... | |
 | 1915 - 484 pàgines
...possessions and military posts whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." (Applause.) He was then looking at your Empire from the standpoint of military conquest and power.... | |
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Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the... 
